It's just impossible not to comment on this. TPM reports today that To Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) is attacking Harry Reid for proposing to call the Senate to order a week after Christmas. Reid's proposal, he clamors, is "disrespecting one of the two holiest of holidays for Christians and the families of all of the Senate, not just the senators themselves but all of the staff."
Okay, so Christmas is whatever we make it, but the Christian right's understanding of its history is, well, absent. Christmas is a contrived "holiday" (holy day) that has no Biblical precedent. The Puritans--not to mention other old-time American Protestants--rejected Christmas entirely.
History lesson below the fold.